Abdul Farouk Abdul Mutallab, the Nigerian Muslim that tried to blow up a Northwest airliner on Christmas day, was added to a terrorist watch list only last month, yet he was still allowed to board an airplane for the United States.
Abdulmutallab was added to the Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment (TIDE) list after his father told U.S. State Department officials that he was worried about his son’s radical beliefs and extremist connections. To think that I have to take off my shoes and have TSA inspectors x-ray them before boarding a commercial airliner, but a guy can be reported to the federal government for being a dangerous Islamic extremist with dubious connections, yet he is allowed to board and aircraft for the United States like a regular person.
Do they want another terrorist attack to happen? I live in a world where if you fail to do your job correctly and something bad happens as a result, you get fired. It would be nice to know that someone is getting fired because Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab was allowed to board an airplane for the United States. I know that’s not about to happen. If nobody was fired as a result of the 9-11 terror attacks, nobody will be getting axed because of this.
I just don’t get it. Supposedly the only reason Abdulmutallab’s bomb didn’t go off is because the detonator was faulty. I have to wonder if he was able to blow up the jet, would we even know that someone on a terrorist watch list was on the plane? Would we even be told it was an act of terror?
My guess is that we wouldn’t. It would be explained as some kind of mechanical failure and life would simply go on.
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